- DR. JOHN TINKER, nursery, Sec. 16; P.O. Clinton; born in
Delaware Co., N.Y., March 15,
- 1822; son of Samuel TINKER, who was a descendant of the TINKERs
that came over in the Mayflower and settled in Connecticut.
Samuel TINKER, died in 1860, at about the age of 18. John started
out for himself at the age of 18; at the age of 22, went to sea;
sailed from New London in the ship Dover (June, 1844) for the
Pacific Ocean, by way of the Cape of Good Hope, on a whaling
voyage; was gone about three years; brought home four thousand
barrels of oil; he shipped as physician and cooper's mate; then
went to Castleton, Vt., and attended a course of lectures and
graduated there; immediately after this, went to California in
schooner Olivia, a vessel of one hundred tons; was gone three
years; landed in San Francisco in July, 1849; there was hardly
a decent building there then; left there in June, 1852, and returned
by way of the Isthmus. Married, Nov. 6, 1852, Phebe C. NASH,
daughter of Isaac NASH; have one child, Lizzie, born Aug. 6,
1866, now attending school. After marriage, came to Clinton
and practiced medicine two years; then engaged in fruit-culture
and nursery business; has one of the best orchards in the State,
and keeps a stock of about ten thousand trees. Mr. TINKER has
a Congregational Church attached to his house.
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- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, p. 786.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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